North favours a devolved model, while southern voters prefer an integrated model within which Northern Ireland would cease to exist as a political unit
NI Poll week 2
The northern public resembles the southern public regarding the acceptability of the devolved model, but northerners are substantially less enthusiastic than southerners about the integrated model. Northern Catholics have high acceptance rates for both models, but more so for the integrated model . Focus groups help us understand why people hold the views they do on these different models. Our focus groups involved members of the public who are “persuadable” on the Irish unity question: they are likely to vote in any referendum on unity, but they either do not have a clear position, or they hold a view that is open to change.
However, southern participants did not view the devolved model as a proper united Ireland. To them, it seemed to be merely a continuation of the present situation: “what difference is the devolved one, like how is that a united Ireland?” The devolved model was seen as “tokenism”, “pussyfooting”, and an option for “the snowflakes”; it would cost southerners a lot of money, but they wouldn’t actually have real unity.
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